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@Human being risk : enhancement, technology and the evaluation of vulnerability transformations / Mark Coeckelbergh

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBookLanguage: English Series: Philosophy of engineering and technology ; 12Publisher: Dordrecht ; Heidelberg [u.a.] : Springer, 2013Description: XIV, 218 SISBN:
  • 9789400760240
Other title:
  • Human being at risk
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9789400760257 | Online-Ausg.: Human Being Risk. Dordrecht : Springer, 2013. Online-Ressource (XIV, 218 p, digital)RVK: RVK: CC 8700LOC classification:
  • MLCM 2017/43279 (T)
  • B53
Summary: Whereas standard approaches to risk and vulnerability presuppose a strict separation between humans and their world, this book develops an existential-phenomenological approach according to which we are always already beings-at-risk. Moreover, it is argued that in our struggle against vulnerability, we create new vulnerabilities and thereby transform ourselves as much as we transform the world. Responding to the discussion about human enhancement and information technologies, the book then shows that this dynamic-relational approach has important implications for the evaluation of new technologies and their risks. It calls for a normative anthropology of vulnerability that does not ask which objective risks are acceptable, how we can become invulnerable, or which technologies threaten human nature, but which vulnerability transformations we want. To the extent that we can steer the growth of new technologies at all, this tragic and sometimes comic project should therefore be guided by what we want to becomeCall number: Grundsignatur: 2013 A 2037PPN: PPN: 741255251
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Handbibliothek ITAS Handbibliothek (Ausleihe und Einsicht nicht möglich) 2013 A 2037 Checked out Ausleihe und Einsicht nicht möglich 29.04.2033 51436238090
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